Imagistic Care : : Growing Old in a Precarious World / / ed. by Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Desjarlais, Robert,; Dyring, Rasmus,; Grøn, Lone,; Kaur Gill, Harmandeep,; Louw, Maria,; Mattingly, Cheryl,; Meinert, Lotte,; Reynolds Whyte, Susan,; Speyer, Maria,; Stevenson, Lisa,; Wentzer, Helle Sofie,
• HerausgeberIn: Grøn, Lone,; Mattingly, Cheryl,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Thinking from Elsewhere
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 b/w illustrations

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how the images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The authors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty.Contributors: Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S. Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: Imagistic Inquiries: Old Age, Intimate Others, and Care -- The Gift: An Imagistic Critical Phenomenology -- Virtuous Aging in Uncanny Moral Worlds: Being Old and Kyrgyz in the Absence of the Young -- “Yeah . . . Yeah”: Imagistic Signatures and Responsive Events in a Danish Dementia Ward -- On the Silent Anarchy of Intimacy: Images of Alterity, Openness, and Sociality in Life with Dementia -- Together Apart: Fence Work in Landscapes of Relationality, Old Age, and Care in the Ik Mountains -- Imagining Self and Other: Carers, TV, and Touch -- Virtues and Vexations: Intimate Others Caring for Elders in Eastern Uganda -- The Staircase: The Ethics of “Transcendence and Height” in Welfare Care -- The Drawing Underneath -- Afterword: These Images Burn -- List of Contributors -- Index